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The R language provides tools for modeling and visualization, but is still an excellent tool for handling/preparing data. As C++ or python, there is some tricks that bring performance, make the code clean or both, but especially with R these choices can have a huge impact on performance and the “size” of your code. A
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RNA-seq has been performed routinely for at least 5+ years, yet there is no consensus on the best methodology for analyzing this data. For example, Eduardo Eyras's group recently posted a pre-print on methods to study splicing from RNA-seq, where this ...

A friend of mine, who's an economics teacher in London, is responsible for preparing some of his students for interviews at Oxford and Cambridge. He told me that, at these schools, students have to go through a nerve-wracking...

by Joseph Rickert The following is a brief report of all things R encountered in my not quite random, but nevertheless far from determined, walk through the O'Reilly Strata / Hadoop World Conference held this week in NYC. To start off, I had the pleasure of doing a 9:00 AM Monday morning joint tutorial with Antonio Piccolboni, the principal...

4th MilanoR meeting took place on October, 24. More than thirty R users and a lot of enthusiasm! You can download presentations and view pictures of the meeting. If you attended the meeting, please leave a comment. Stay connected! Next … Continue reading →

Creating molten data Instead of thinking about data in terms of a matrix or a data frame where we have observations in the rows and variables in the columns, we need to think of the variables as divided in two groups: identifier and measured variables. Identifier variables (id) identify the unit that measurements take place

I haven’t used interaction terms in (generalized) linear model quite often yet. However, recently I have had some situations where I tried to compute regression models with interaction terms and was wondering how to interprete the results. Just looking at the estimates won’t help much in such cases. One approach used by some people is

This year, for Halloween, a post on candies (I promise, next year I will write another post on zombies). But I don’t want to focus on the kids problems (last year, we tried to minimize their walking distance to collect as much candies as possible, with part 1 and part 2), I want to discuss my own problems. Because usually, the kids wear...